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Escape from Alcatraz
There is a prison called Alcatraz prison, which is a federal prison that can not be completely penetrated over the ages. The opposite may have happened once when that federal prison, fortified once in history by twenty-nine years ago, was broken by three criminals - Al Capone and Berdman Robert Stroud. It is the only time prisoners have managed to penetrate it, but those who have been able to penetrate it have not heard about them again through the ages.
30 October 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 February 1936, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
4 June 1934, New Jersey, USA
22 August 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
16 March 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 November 1933, Malone, New York, USA
16 April 1913, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 April 1939, USA
3 June 1947, Detroit, Michigan, USA
April 15, 2015
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.
March 26, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.
June 18, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz was the last of five films that Don Siegel directed with Clint Eastwood, and it's the end of an impeccable track record.
October 23, 2004
It's one of those very difficult exercises in which large emotions, like the compulsion to be free, are reflected in minute actions, like the chipping away at stone with a pocket nail clipper.
April 17, 2005
Eastwood adds a lot of grit to this entertaining prison flick.
September 01, 2010
One of the better prison break films.
September 21, 2004
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work.
May 20, 2003
What Mr. Siegel has made is fiction, a first-rate action movie that is about the need and the decision to take action, as well as the action itself.
June 12, 2004
Classy and intriguing.
November 13, 2009
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame
January 26, 2006
It's an austere depiction of the tedious routines of prison life, and of the courage and strength of spirit needed in coping with unpleasant warders, tough fellow-inmates, and a life sentence.
